DIGITAL LIBRARIES: Will RDA Be DOA?

摘要

The rules and guidelines that have guided catalogers for decades are undergoing revision. It's taken for granted that the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, Second Edition (AACR2), are past due for an update in this Internet age. The revision effort began in 1997, but to signal a dramatic departure from AACR2, it was dubbed Resource Description and Access (RDA) in 2005.